Our Mission and Purpose

The Association for Software Testing is dedicated to advancing the understanding of the science and practice of software testing according to Context-Driven principles.

The Association for Software Testing (AST)  is a professional non-profit association that is dedicated and strives to build a testing community that views the role of testing as skilled, relevant, and essential to the production of faster, better, and less expensive software products. We value a scientific approach to developing and evaluating techniques, processes, and tools. We believe that a self-aware, self-critical attitude is essential to understanding and assessing the impact of new ideas on the practice of testing.

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News

SummerQAmp Brain Dump: Need BRAAIINS!!!

We are rapidly approaching Summer, and with Summer comes summer internships. Specifically, SummerQAmp internships! With this initiative come up very soon, Michael Larsen and participants in the Education Special Interest Group are actively working t...

Estonian II Context-driven Testers Peer Conference – PEST2

Experience Report Provided by: Kristjan Uba Date: 16-18 March, 2012 Location: Tallinn, Estonia Twitter: #PEST2  Web: http://www.testerstower.com/ PEST2 = 9 peers from 6 companies for 2 days with infinite amount of good ideas. Not counting t...

Context-Driven Dining

Experience report provided by Rajesh Mathur 3/14/12 Hong Kong AST’s Grant program sponsored a group of software testers for an evening of dinner and discussion. The question of the night: How to Improve Effectiveness of Testing? Before divulging...

CAST 2012 - "Early Bird" discount ends April 30th

The "Early Bird" discount ends April 30th! If you register before the end of this month you will receive our "Early Bird" pricing, a $200 savings off the regular conference price. The Association for Software Testing is pleased to announce its sevent...

Right vs. Right: Ethical Issues for Software Testers

By: Scott Allman I want your help gathering stories for my CAST 2012 presentation.  Let me tell you about how you can help. My presentation aims to teach a skill to software testers.  One of the benefits of the skill is to help testers understand...

AST Partners with SummerQAmp

GroupMe co-founder Steve Martocci,Gilt Groupe’s Vice President of Quality Engineering Kevin Haggard, Onswipe CEO Jason Baptiste, former CTO of the White House Aneesh Chopra and musician Jon Bon Jovi  recently announced the launch of SummerQAmp, a ...

SummerQAmp Call for Participation

A new initiative coming from the White House’s Summer Jobs+ program has been developed to train a new workforce in high-tech skills and create tech jobs for American youth between the ages of 16 and 24. The goal of SummerQAmp is to introduce software...

AST "Live" Training

AST has gathered some of the finest practitioners in software testing to offer live 2 day and 3 day training classes. These classes will be held at the Wyndham Hotel in San Jose, CA this July in the days leading up to and immediately following CAST 201...